HANNA, HOWARD MELVILLE - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

HANNA, HOWARD MELVILLE (23 Jan. 1840--8 Feb. 1921), a founder of the M. A. HANNA CO., was active in the shipping industry on Great Lakes as well as in the development of the oil, steel, and tobacco businesses locally. Brother to MARCUS ALONZO HANNA† and Leonard C. Hanna, he was born to Dr. Leonard and Samantha Converse Hanna in New Lisbon, OH, where he lived until the family moved to Cleveland when he was 12. He attended public schools and graduated from Union College in Schenectady, NY. Hanna enlisted in the Union navy in at the outbreak of CIVIL WAR.

On 28 Dec. 1863 Hanna married Kate Smith (d. May 1919); they had 2 sons, H. M., Jr., and Leonard, who died in infancy, and 2 daughters, Mary Gertrude (Mrs. COBURN†) Haskell and Kate B. (d.1936), who, divorced from R. Livingston Ireland, married Perry W. Harvey. Hanna died at his winter home in Thomasville, GA.